Auto-generate database schema based upon model?

Rails
1

From my research, it appears that I have to manually create database
tables. I was wondering if there is a gem or something else in ROR
that would auto-create the database for me based upon my ruby model.

Thanks.

2

The fields themselves won’t be auto created, but when you do
./script/generate model model_name, you’ll also get a db migration file
generated for ya.

3

You have to manually create the empty db yourself (eg mysqladmin create
foo_development)

When you generate the model an empty migration is created in
db\migrate. Edit this to define the table columns and then run rake
db:migrate.

Read about migrations, much nicer than hand coding sql scripts.